> The problem with the 'max-time' feature seems to persist, 
> httrack is not exiting after the defined timeout.

The RC18 should be more aggressive in timeouts (especially, 
I added timeouts checks in the parsing loop AND in the link 
testing loop) and should solve this problem. I checked with 
a similar configuration (a php script taking 30 seconds to 
execute) and httrack gracefully exits after the timeout 
value.